League of lasses boycotts men who don't enlist in WWI

During World War I, single women in the Victorian town of Healesville banded together to boycott any young fellas who had failed to enlist. "If we are not good enough to fight for, we are not good enough to smoodge with," they declared. ("Smoodge" being slang for kissin' and cuddlin'.)

The "anti-smoodging edict" was breathlessly reported in 1917 by the Melbourne tabloid Truth, which feared for any khaki-wearing soldier foolish enough to visit Healesville and its smoodge-starved population. "The league of lasses... would ALL BE AFTER HIM at once" — as illustrated by this accompanying cartoon.

The paper doubted lasting success for the boycott, predicting it would either be undone by "black-legging belles" (that is, those who keep working when a strike is in effect), or that "human nature will out" and "the waists of Healesville houris will once more be clasped by coat-sleeves of material other than khaki". (Truth via Trove)